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North by North/west
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North by North/west

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north by north/west is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction assembled as several iterative sequences--a discontinuous itinerary--of exile. Harnessing both montage and collage to represent the incohesive experience of being between cultures, categories, and language, this book is a personal, critical, and autoethnographic exploration of diasporic identity formation and creative expression amidst the cultural and political impacts of Cold War colonialism and fragmentation. As the narrator begins work on a rough translation of the 1959 film North by Northwest, focal points surface through textual correspondences with distant coordinates, shifting between close readings of Whitney Houston's early music videos, current events reportage, illness journals, eighties spy movies, the most recent solar eclipse, Alfred Hitchcock's unproduced films, Cold War "stay-behind operations," an ill-fated party at the Festival de Cannes, and family accounts of migration. These meticulously arranged narrative threads--harnessing elements of a novel alongside poetry, photographs, and field notes--attempt to discompose the epistemology of the West/Global North in order to conceptualize a genre of work by the children of exiles who have been called "the post-dictatorship generation."

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Country
United States
Date
1 May 2025
Pages
216
ISBN
9781959000433

north by north/west is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction assembled as several iterative sequences--a discontinuous itinerary--of exile. Harnessing both montage and collage to represent the incohesive experience of being between cultures, categories, and language, this book is a personal, critical, and autoethnographic exploration of diasporic identity formation and creative expression amidst the cultural and political impacts of Cold War colonialism and fragmentation. As the narrator begins work on a rough translation of the 1959 film North by Northwest, focal points surface through textual correspondences with distant coordinates, shifting between close readings of Whitney Houston's early music videos, current events reportage, illness journals, eighties spy movies, the most recent solar eclipse, Alfred Hitchcock's unproduced films, Cold War "stay-behind operations," an ill-fated party at the Festival de Cannes, and family accounts of migration. These meticulously arranged narrative threads--harnessing elements of a novel alongside poetry, photographs, and field notes--attempt to discompose the epistemology of the West/Global North in order to conceptualize a genre of work by the children of exiles who have been called "the post-dictatorship generation."

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Country
United States
Date
1 May 2025
Pages
216
ISBN
9781959000433